With the New York Film Critics Circle slowing rolling out its annual award-winners today — Zero Dark Thirty just took best picture — we decided to take a look at who's piling up the early prizes already, and what it might tell us about the Oscar field.

With the New York Film Critics Circle slowing rolling out its annual award-winners today — Zero Dark Thirty just took best picture — we decided to take a look at who's piling up the early prizes already, and what it might tell us about the Oscar field.

Let's try to make some sense of all this, shall we? Here's a running cataloguing of who's won the early awards. (So as not to overload, we've been a bit selective, eliminating really, really small films that don't look like they'll be in the really, really big contention for Oscars.) Note that it's still really, really early, and that certain Oscar bait like Les Misérables hasn't yet made it to screens in front of every critic or voter quite yet.

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